![]() ![]() ![]() For simpler folk like me who rely on more tools than normal folk with regular colour vision, I found the reference panel and custom colour set maker to be hugely beneficial. There are ways to fine tune almost every aspect of brush, canvas and colour. Using this would have saved me a fair bit of time.ĭespite a very clean and simple desktop appearance Rebelle 3 is actually a very powerful program. When I created this design, I had not yet learned how to use the Fluid Masking tool in Rebelle 3. I made copious use of the erase tool and the manual lasso tool to remove bits I did not want. One of the more fiddly parts of this project was trying to stop colours bleeding into areas they shouldn't. I could have performed these in Rebelle but I just prefered to play with them in the more familiar setting of PS. I wanted to add contrast to the night sky and play around with saturation a bit. The final image, above, was tweaked in Photoshop. All the tools are really simple and easy to use which made experimenting fun. In the image above you can see how the aurora parts are streaky, this effect was achieve using the air blowing tool. Rebelle 3 has the more advanced ability to really fine tune the way the paper grain interacts with the paint. It's a bit fiddly so I much prefer the Rebelle way of doing things here.Ĭloser up detail where you can see how the paper grain shows through. In other art programs, I copy and paste a reference image as a new layer, then click back and forth. As I say, it's highly useful for me for picking colours with the eye dropper tool. The reference panel is always 'on top' but disappears when you move the brush over it, then reappears when you move the brush away from it. All very beneficial as I need lots of help with colours. You can also take a reference image and ask Rebelle to create a custom colour palette based on the reference. You can collect and save palettes and even name individual colours. From what I've read the colour palettes and the way it manages colour is far superior. I was able to create a custom colour palette based on the reference image and then use the eye dropper tool to select the colours I wanted.Īnother reason I chose Rebelle over, say, Art Rage, is down to the colour management. In this screengrab you can see two very helpful pop-out windows - the reference panel and the colour set panel. This pop out box you can deposit any reference photo (in my case I chose a generic photo of the arctic with northern lights) and use it to guide your work as you paint, but being colour blind, my main benefit was to use the reference panel and eye dropper tool for colour picking. One truly amazing and helpful tool is the reference panel. The stars I used the dip pen tool and an opaque white. The ability to wet the paper, tilt the canvas and even use directional air to blow on the wet paint to create streaky patterns all helped me paint the aurora borealis in the background of this image. The foreground and bears are untouched at this stage. In this screengrab I have painted an aurora borealis night sky using watrercolours. Grappling polar bears - Christmas Card project created on Rebelle 3. Saving the work did take some time however - around 15-20 seconds of waiting time. The Christmas card project used a canvas size of 14x10inches at 300dpi (roughly 36 MB when open). ![]() On my laptop (32GB machine with i5 processor) the program ran smoothly with no lag or delay at all despite using five or six layers at a time. Each tool and panel has a pop out name so it was simple to discover what each tool did. I have not needed to refer to any reference guide or forum help (so far!). I like programs that are immediately intuitive to use straight away and Rebelle 3 is definitely easy to use. It's so incredibly realistic yet offers all the convenience of Photoshop and other art program functionality. I had a lot of fun playing around with Rebelle3. Rebelle 3 for UK customers is normally priced at around £68 inc VAT but thanks to Black Friday sale and a further 10% discount for being an email subscriber, in the end I paid £53 incl VAT from here. But it is a bit more pricey than Art Rage (£45 inc VAT). I chose it because I liked the description of the way it handled watercolour and I liked the colour management system. Reading several reviews I was swayed towards Rebelle 3. Looking around at various review sites, the decision as to which software I would use came down to either Art Rage 5 or Rebelle 3. I was given the commission to create a client Christmas card and I thought this would be the ideal opportunity to try something I've always been meaning to do properly - digital watercolour. ![]()
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